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Is it true or false the high ground between two drainage basins is called a divide?
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What is the area of Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground called an?
Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground called a divide.
Can you live in two watersheds?
There's some ambiguity in the question. The word "watershed" is used differently in different places. In the United States it usually means "drainage basin" or "catchment". In Europe, it usually means "divide" (as in "Continental Divide"), or the boundary between drainage basins. I'm assuming you mean the "catchment" usage, since it doesn't make sense to ask if you can live "in" a boundary. However, you can certainly live ON a boundary, in which case part of your property may be in one drainage basin and the rest in another. In that case, the answer is yes.
What is the dividing line between atlantic and pacific watersheds?
Continental Divide is the drainage that divides sea or ocean. The Great Divide or the Continental Divide of the Americas is the division of the Pacific Ocean watersheds from the Atlantic and Arctic.
What are drainage basins separated by?
A plateau (flat area of ground) will separate drainage basins, but more usually each drainage basin is separated topographically from adjacent basins by a ridge, hill or mountain, which is known as a water divide or a watershed.
What separates rivers that flow east from those that flow west in North America?
The ross sea
What is the high ground between drainage basins called?
Because, drainage basins are high elevated
What is the high ground between two drainage basins called?
a drainage divide
Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground called a?
Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground called a divide.
What is the area of Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground called an?
Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground called a divide.
Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground is called?
Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground called a drainage divide. North America has 5 large Continental Divides that separate the drainage basins of the Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic Oceans, Hudson Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico.
What are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basins are called what?
The term "watershed" is sometimes used, though this is a little ambiguous, since some people use it in a way that's essentially synonymous with "drainage basin", and some people use it for the boundaries between drainage basins.
Drainage basins are separated from each other by an area of higher ground?
a lavel place or land
What is the difference detween divide and watershed?
There is actually no difference between a divide and a watershed. Both divides and watersheds are lines implemented to designate the separation between drainage basins.
A river and its tributaries are?
the main river and all of its tributaries are called a river system. The land drained by the river system is called a drainage basin. Drainage basins are separated by the high land in between, known as a divide or watershed.
Explain the difference between a drainage basin and a drainage divide?
A drainage basin is an extent or area of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. A drainage divide is the line separating neighbouring drainage basins (catchments).
What is a drainage divide on a mountain peak?
A drainage divide on a mountain peak is a boundary separating water flow into different drainage basins on either side of the peak. Water that falls on one side of the peak flows into one river system, while water on the other side flows into a different river system.
What principle divide between the Mississippi and Columbia river basins?
The Rocky Mountains
